Emu Loader 2.7

posted in Site News by slein on Dec 22nd, 2001

The MAME frontend Emu Loader has been updated to 2.7. Sit back, cause there's a lot of new stuff in this release:
  • Changed the "Tweaks" main menu description to "Advanced Tools".
  • Added the most awaited "Parental Lock" feature
  • Options are in "Advanced Tools" main manu.
  • Parental Lock Manager.
  • Fixed an "access violation" error that after games refreshing, the list has no games.
  • Changed the "Current User" label description on status bar for "Favorite User".
  • Fixed the "Show Icons Legends". The proper icons are now loaded from the current default icons set.
  • Added the new "Emu Loader Media Player" module.
  • Added a preliminary "Full Screen" mode ("Advanced Tools" main menu).
  • Added the Num Lock status restore for all Windows versions, after exiting MAME (this is a known MAME bug).
  • New pictures preview option: "Stretch Larger Pictures Only".
  • Update the DirectShow unit for "Intro Movie" and "EL Media Player".
  • Added the awaited Screen Saver.
  • Changed a lot of the icons on Emu Loader's GUI.
  • Most of internal icons are changed to size 48x48, instead of 32x32.
  • Added two more executables options for MAME executables.
  • Deleted the entire support for MAME32.
  • Fixed error: "Failed to execute program " -createconfig". Error Code2".
  • Added the "User Profile" feature.
  • Moved a few procedures/functions to a new file: "uCommon.pas".
  • Added .wav files support for sound clips feature.
  • Fixed the access violation error when switching to favorites games while real icons is activated.
  • Fixed an error that was preventing to show pictures betwwen 08 and 11.
  • Most of the "Close" buttons are replaced by a "Ok" button.
  • Added preliminary support for language translation.
  • Added the HotRod SE image in "Preferences" screen with more options.
  • Completely rewrote MAME .ini file read/write procedures.
  • Fixed Neo Geo bios information with the new release for MAME 0.56.
  • Fixed "Garou" clones that was being shown as classic games. They are Neo Geo clone games (for MAME 0.56).
  • Updated "size" and "crc" info on audit results.
  • Fixed a bug on the custom sample rate (custom game options).
  • Changed the source folder from "Fonts" to "Source".
  • Completely removed the "Debugger" window.
  • The file "zip.dll" is not needed anymore.
  • Changed the "Original" filter name to "Master".
  • Added three new filter buttons: - Show All Games - Show Only Available Games - Show Only Unavailable Games
  • Removed the "Available" and "Unavailable" filters from the list filter.
  • Fixed a real icons bug.
  • Fixed for good a bug when detecting MAME executables.
  • Game size info updated.
  • Fixed a classification bug when adding unavailable games and bios to favorite lists.
  • Added history and driver info on "Automatic Game Information" feature.
  • Changed the default game icons for another set.
  • Added "Parental Lock" and "User Profile" tutorial files on the list of "View Text Files" menu option.
  • Moved all frontend docs on a new folder called "docs".
You can get it at the MAME Frontends page. Thanks to Marmitt for the news.